👀 Among reviewers receiving such payments, the median general payment was 👉 $7,614 👈 and the median research payment was $153,173❗️
More than half of U.S. physician peer reviewers for the most influential medical journals receive industry payments
The researchers found that 58.9 percent of identified peer reviewers received at least one industry payment.
Overall, reviewers received $1.06 billion in industry payments during the study period, including $1.00 billion (94.0 percent) to individuals or their institutions and $64.18 million (6.0 percent) in general payments. Consulting fees accounted for $34.31 million, and speaking compensation unrelated to continuing medical education programs accounted for $11.80 million.
The world we live in has become nothing but smoke and mirrors. Its corruption is to the point that Western society will fail. It's a typical cycle of human nature that loses its love for other humans and becomes self-serving until trust in society crumbles. We then get a crash of confidence in the system, the corrupt system fails, and a new system is created. Throughout history, this has been the case.
I’m sure, just like Kathryn Edwards, the money doesn’t affect their judgment.
The world we live in has become nothing but smoke and mirrors. Its corruption is to the point that Western society will fail. It's a typical cycle of human nature that loses its love for other humans and becomes self-serving until trust in society crumbles. We then get a crash of confidence in the system, the corrupt system fails, and a new system is created. Throughout history, this has been the case.
Agreed. You might find this guys take interesting, how narratives are spun in a sort of binary way, with sides for/against,. that hold so many in that smoke and mirrors world... https://rumble.com/v5hz531-coffee-and-a-mike-stephen-coughlin-everything-has-become-a-conclusory-assum.html
Peer review is akin to collusion among peers to publish research findings for mutual gain.